Dionysius (secular name Dmitry Zhabokritsky ; ca. 1652, Lutsk - 1715 , Moscow ) - Bishop of the Russian Uniate Church , Bishop of Lutsk (since 1702)
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From 1695 to 1702 - Orthodox , from 1702 to 1709 - Uniate ) priest.
Biography
Occurred with Volyn . Born in a family of Orthodox gentry. Studied, probably in the Lutsk fraternal school.
He served as a Vilkomir substitute, from 1674 a judge of the Kapturovny Court of Volyn Voivodeship (temporary emergency court in Rzecz Pospolita to handle urgent cases and ensure internal security during the time of rooting). From 1677 to 1686 he was elected elder of the Lutsk brotherhood.
In 1684 - Kiev under the voivode , from 1691 at the same time the Kremenets subarchy.
The Lutsk Revival Brotherhood led by Dionysius Zhabokritsky in 1680 and 1694 prevented the holding of a general congress of Orthodox and Uniates.
In 1679-1629 he headed the embassies to the supreme power of the Commonwealth from the Kiev and Bratslav provinces for the protection of the Orthodox clergy from oppression of the Cossacks , the support of the Orthodox population.
With the election of the Kremenetsky underworldly engaged in the activities of the Kremenetsky Epiphany Brotherhood. In 1693 he became a Lutsk clerk of the Zemstvo.
In February 1695 he was elected Bishop of the Lutsk and Volyn Diocese . He tried to hold and strengthen the position of Orthodoxy in this post, streamlined the inner life of the diocese, secured a return from the Uniates of the Goysky and Podgoretsky monasteries, as well as the Ovruch archimandria, contributed to the revitalization of the Lutsk brotherhood, improved the material condition of the monasteries. In his activities, he came across a strong opposition from the Uniates.
Despite the support of Dionysius Zhabokritsky by the clergy of Kiev, hetman I. Mazepa and the Polish king Augustus II the Strong , the Moscow patriarch Adrian did not bless the Kiev metropolitan Varlaam Yasinsky to be ordained Dionysius to the bishops, because before his election he was married to a widow who was forbidden by the church, he was married to a widow who was forbidden by the church.
The dedication of Dionysius Zhabokritsky in 1700 to Marmarosh Archbishop Joseph (Resistance) was not recognized not only by Catholics and Uniates, but also by Orthodox.
After the transition to Uniatism in 1702 he began to engage in its active distribution.
With the entry of Russian troops during the Northern War of 1700–1721 into the territory of the Commonwealth in 1704, he went to the bishop of Peremyshl George of Vinnitsa, and in 1705 - to the Stanislav Leschinsky camp, in 1706 he returned to Volyn.
After the Russian authorities received information about Dionysius’s obstacles to the actions of the Russian troops, the next year he fled to Hungary .
In 1708 he returned to Lutsk . In an attempt to capture his enemies and extradite Dionysius to the Russians, he fled to the camp of Crown Hetman A. Senyavsky , but in early 1709 he was captured and extradited to the Russian side.
After winning the Battle of Poltava, the Russian emperor Peter I, for supporting Mazepa, ordered the arrest of the bishop.
Embittered with betrayal of Mazepa, Peter I gave vent to his feeling of revenge, and his punishment on those who openly followed Mazepa was terrible ... Among these hetman’s allies was Bishop of Lutsk and Ostrog Dionysius Zhabokritsky
- D. Doroshenko from the book "Essay on the History of Ukraine"
After a temporary detention in Kiev in 1710, he was transported to Moscow to one of the monasteries. The prisoner was not given any clothes or food for a week. He asked for alms from passers-by. And in the second half of 1710, Peter I himself visited him to convince the bishop to change his views. Resistance Dionysius enraged the sovereign. And despite the request of the Poles for his release, by order of Peter I in 1711, Dionysius Zhabokritsky was exiled to the Solovetsky Monastery , where he maintained friendly relations with Archbishop Kholmogorsky and Vazhsky Rafail (Krasnopolsky) .
After a while he was returned from Solovkov to Moscow, where he died in 1715.
Literature
- Volodymyr Yashchuk. “The tragedy of Zhabokritsky” // “Vilne Word” (Rivne), part 4 (13727) from 15.01.2002, p. 6. (inaccessible link) (ukr.)
- Blazheiovskii D. ІVrarhіya Kiev church (861-1996). - Lviv: Kamenyar, 1996. - p. 264-265. (in Ukrainian)